A SHEPHERD, watching his Ass feeding in a meadow, was alarmed allof a sudden by the cries of the enemy. He appealed to the Ass tofly with him, lest th...
A man who wanted to buy an Ass went to market, and, coming acrossa likely-looking beast, arranged with the owner that he should beallowed to take him ...
A TRAVELER hired an Ass to convey him to a distant place. Theday being intensely hot, and the sun shining in its strength, theTraveler stopped to rest...
AN ASS congratulated a Horse on being so ungrudgingly andcarefully provided for, while he himself had scarcely enough toeat and not even that without ...
AN ASS once carried through the streets of a city a famous woodenImage, to be placed in one of its Temples. As he passed along,the crowd made lowly pr...
AN ARAB CAMEL-DRIVER, after completing the loading of his Camel,asked him which he would like best, to go up hill or down. Thepoor beast replied, not ...
The gods were once disputing whether it was possible for aliving being to change its nature. Jupiter said "Yes," but Venussaid "No.&quo...
A singing bird was confined in a cage which hung outside a window,and had a way of singing at night when all other birds were asleep.One night a Bat c...
WHEN MAN first saw the Camel, he was so frightened at his vastsize that he ran away. After a time, perceiving the meekness andgentleness of the beast&...
A BULL finding a lion's cub asleep gored him to death with hishorns. The Lioness came up, and bitterly lamented the death ofher whelp. A wild-boar...